A lot of people are mad as hell about City Hall’s plans to destroy their neighborhoods and the quality of their lives for the benefit of wealthy developers.
A lot of people like the Animal Defense League, L.A., jumped aboard the Brenda Barnette bandwagon when she was appointed to run the troubled Animal Services Department 18 months ago.lost animals of Los Angeles.”
for more than a year? This is about L.A. Animal Services, but it is sadly
symptomatic of LA government. Isn’t there something
that can be done to get the Mayor to care?
“It amazes me that a
manager can be hired to solve a specific problem, and still have their job more
than one year later after making the problem over 11% worse.
It’s not like the department is doing well at something else to make up for it
either.
“It seems there is
nowhere to turn.”
That’s the same feeling just about everyone has who has tried to get City Hall to fix problems, instead of causing them.
Personally, I don’t have a strong opinion on the animal shelter problem although thanks to the goodness of heart of my wife, I do enjoy the company of a stray dog named Bruno and a lost cockatiel named Francois.
But I have come to the conclusion on this and all the other issues that it is going to take a terrible calamity in which a lot of people get hurt or a miraculous mass awakening to change the fate of L.A.
Is there not one day without hearing about, this and or that, to which in the end, its pain and suffering or loss of tax payer money. The lot of them: incompetent. Take shelter and bear witness is all we can do, these days. But I hear help is on the way. My cat is playing with the bottle cap!!
I have no doubt she is a failed appointment, but the stats don’t tell a full story. People are stressed out financially – most people in that situation are looking to cut the pet budget out completely even if it means abandoning animals and few households are thinking about taking on a pet, adopted or otherwise, so the adoption universe has shrunk.
So more animals are in the system and fewer are likely to be adopted.
You can blame the failure to create effective spay/neuter policies and programs on Villa and his bumblers, but the fact is, it is hard out there.
The breeders are causing the overpopulation of pets. Ban them along with pitbulls that kill more people than any breed. And, also don’t televise that idiotic Westminster show that only encourages people to get those over-priced exotic dogs.
What a ignorant and uneducated comment. How many Westminster bred dogs DO YOU THINK END UP AT THE SHELTER? How many great loving Pit Bulls need to die because of someone like you?
The shelter directors that find it easier to kill then to do the hard things to find these animals homes are the ones with the most blame, most make over 100k a year, but somehow can’t find the resources to get homes for the animals in their care. Next you have people who let their dogs roam and reproduce or stake their in heat dog out in the yard and then have mixed breed litter after mixed breed litter and guess where they dump the pups after they are not so cute anymore?
There are thousands of Wonderful, loving pitbulls with responsible upstanding owners. Unfortunately, Pit Bulls are the most abused dog in America and they are constantly taking the rap for the people that made them aggressive, trained them to fight etc.
The economy has been the same since the Boks days.
We want the Mayor’s budget cut by 50% and transferred to the Animal Shelters.
@ Must adjust for recession:
The stats DO tell the full story.
Brenda Barnette is failing miserably and hideously.
The shelter workers hate her. She doesn’t engage with anyone at the shelter level and has no idea what is going on, as witnessed by the vet tech who was injecting pentakill into animals’ jugular veins for YEARS and no one reported him.
She is a breeder and an AKC member. Which genius adult in the room when she was appointed thought this wouldn’t color her every action as the General Manager of a City shelter system that has spay/neuter legislation in place that she fought against as the AKC “Legislative Liaison?”
The kill rate is higher than it has been under the last 3 General Managers.
She lies and triangulates, blames everything and everyone else for her personal failure at a job to which she was appointed because she’s the supposed “expert” at “No-Kill.”
She’s a fraud, and our taxpayer dollars are paying her the big bucks to fail.
The worst thing about this is that so many innocent lives are wasted while Barnette attends local social functions and has a grand time living the good life in Hollywood.
She came here to prove that our spay/neuter legislation doesn’t work, and she’s doing everything she can to prove it by killing more and more adoptable animals.
She has cancelled more than 90% of the Mobile adoption events – events that demonstrate to the public that there are wonderful shelter animals that need homes. Events that facilitate adoptions without the public having to enter our hideously run, depressing shelters that are mostly staffed by rude, unresponsive, unhelpful burned-out and unaccountable staff who have no idea (and no training) that proper customer service (like in any good business) will increase the bottom line – more adoptions and less killing.
It costs more to impound, feed, care for and euthanize an animal than it does to foot the bill for an off-site adoption.
Barnette doesn’t get it. She’s full of hyperbole and hot air and needs to go now.
Maybe the next GM will have a clue. We can only hope.
How long will the animals continue to die by the thousands before she’s kicked out?
@ Must adjust for recession:
The stats DO tell the full story.
Brenda Barnette is failing miserably and hideously.
The shelter workers hate her. She doesn’t engage with anyone at the shelter level and has no idea what is going on, as witnessed by the vet tech who was injecting pentakill into animals’ jugular veins for YEARS and no one reported him.
She is a breeder and an AKC member. Which genius adult in the room when she was appointed thought this wouldn’t color her every action as the General Manager of a City shelter system that has spay/neuter legislation in place that she fought against as the AKC “Legislative Liaison?”
The kill rate is higher than it has been under the last 3 General Managers.
She lies and triangulates, blames everything and everyone else for her personal failure at a job to which she was appointed because she’s the supposed “expert” at “No-Kill.”
She’s a fraud, and our taxpayer dollars are paying her the big bucks to fail.
The worst thing about this is that so many innocent lives are wasted while Barnette attends local social functions and has a grand time living the good life in Hollywood.
She came here to prove that our spay/neuter legislation doesn’t work, and she’s doing everything she can to prove it by killing more and more adoptable animals.
She has cancelled more than 90% of the Mobile adoption events – events that demonstrate to the public that there are wonderful shelter animals that need homes. Events that facilitate adoptions without the public having to enter our hideously run, depressing shelters that are mostly staffed by rude, unresponsive, unhelpful burned-out and unaccountable staff who have no idea (and no training) that proper customer service (like in any good business) will increase the bottom line – more adoptions and less killing.
It costs more to impound, feed, care for and euthanize an animal than it does to foot the bill for an off-site adoption.
Barnette doesn’t get it. She’s full of hyperbole and hot air and needs to go now.
Maybe the next GM will have a clue. We can only hope.
How long will the animals continue to die by the thousands before she’s kicked out?
@ Must adjust for recession:
The stats DO tell the full story.
Brenda Barnette is failing miserably and hideously.
The shelter workers hate her. She doesn’t engage with anyone at the shelter level and has no idea what is going on, as witnessed by the vet tech who was injecting pentakill into animals’ jugular veins for YEARS and no one reported him.
She is a breeder and an AKC member. Which genius adult in the room when she was appointed thought this wouldn’t color her every action as the General Manager of a City shelter system that has spay/neuter legislation in place that she fought against as the AKC “Legislative Liaison?”
The kill rate is higher than it has been under the last 3 General Managers.
She lies and triangulates, blames everything and everyone else for her personal failure at a job to which she was appointed because she’s the supposed “expert” at “No-Kill.”
She’s a fraud, and our taxpayer dollars are paying her the big bucks to fail.
The worst thing about this is that so many innocent lives are wasted while Barnette attends local social functions and has a grand time living the good life in Hollywood.
She came here to prove that our spay/neuter legislation doesn’t work, and she’s doing everything she can to prove it by killing more and more adoptable animals.
She has cancelled more than 90% of the Mobile adoption events – events that demonstrate to the public that there are wonderful shelter animals that need homes. Events that facilitate adoptions without the public having to enter our hideously run, depressing shelters that are mostly staffed by rude, unresponsive, unhelpful burned-out and unaccountable staff who have no idea (and no training) that proper customer service (like in any good business) will increase the bottom line – more adoptions and less killing.
It costs more to impound, feed, care for and euthanize an animal than it does to foot the bill for an off-site adoption.
Barnette doesn’t get it. She’s full of hyperbole and hot air and needs to go now.
Maybe the next GM will have a clue. We can only hope.
How long will the animals continue to die by the thousands before she’s kicked out?
Not a single department in City Hall is functioning or scandal/corruption free. What will it take to force out this pathetic excuse of a Mayor from our city.
You guys teach us something new everyday. Thank you very much for such a wonderful post. Hope to read something new again.
This is without a doubt, the most tired and boring story ever played out in the history of the city of Los Angeles.
Exactly WHICH GM of the Department of Animal Services will EVER be good enough?
Cut the Mayor’s budget by 50% to give to the animal shelters? What an assinine theory!
Please go away.
“This is without a doubt, the most tired and boring story ever played out in the history of the city of Los Angeles”. Which butcher shop did you come from? Oh! I forgot, you are from the dumbass Mayor’s shop where cutting his budget by 50% is assinine to you. Let’s cut his budget completely. He has 50,000 city staff already. See no reason why he needs another 200 ghouls-most of them the dumbest people I’ve come across.